Playground
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Keep the little ones happy at campgrounds and RV parks with playgrounds. Featuring swings, slides, and climbing structures, these play areas provide safe and enjoyable spaces for children to burn off energy and make new friends.
RV parks and campgrounds with Playground near Heber City, Utah.
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Phillips RV Park
42 RV Sites, 3 Tent Sites
Phillips RV Park in Evanston, Wyoming, has operated under family ownership since 1936, bringing nearly nine decades of accumulated hospitality experience to a campground that has served travelers on the US-189/US-30 corridor in Uinta County since the era when the Lincoln Highway carried the first transcontinental automobile tourists through the high-desert sagebrush country of southwestern Wyoming. The park's longevity reflects the consistent quality and personal attention that multi-generational family operation typically produces, and its position in Evanston—Wyoming's gateway city from Utah on I-80—makes it a natural stopping point for travelers moving between the Wasatch Front and the Wyoming high country. The park provides full hookup sites with water, electric, and sewer connections on big-rig-friendly pads, with clean restrooms, showers, laundry, a playground, and Wi-Fi rounding out the amenity set that extended-stay and transit guests alike require. The Bear River's proximity, noted in the park's listing of nearby features, adds a natural waterway element to the setting—a creek-side character that the high desert communities of southwestern Wyoming provide rarely, given the predominantly arid and treeless landscape that defines the region between the Wasatch and the Medicine Bow ranges. Pet-friendly policies welcome the dogs that many western travelers bring on road trips through Wyoming's wide-open spaces. Evanston's position in the Bridger Valley at 6,748 feet elevation in the Bear River drainage puts guests in a landscape defined by the high sagebrush steppe characteristic of the Great Basin's eastern margins—vast, windswept, and dramatically open in a way that the tree-covered mountain ranges of the surrounding Uinta and Bear River ranges make more visually complex than the simple flat-desert stereotype. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Bear River Valley to the southwest near Brigham City, Utah, is one of the premier wetland bird sanctuaries in the Interior West, with shorebird and waterfowl diversity during migration season that attracts serious birders annually. The Uinta Mountains rise dramatically to the south of Evanston along the Utah border—the only major mountain range in the contiguous United States with an east-west orientation rather than north-south—and the Ashley National Forest's Wyoming portion provides hiking and fishing access in the Uinta's northern drainages. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, approximately 60 miles south in Utah, protects the Red Canyon and Green River reservoir system with boating, fishing, and geological touring that showcases the spectacular canyon geology of the Colorado Plateau's northernmost extent. Salt Lake City lies approximately 90 miles southwest via I-80 for guests who want access to Utah's urban amenity set. Phillips RV Park operates year-round in Evanston's high-altitude Wyoming climate, where summers are pleasantly cool compared to lower-elevation camping alternatives and winter brings the cold and occasional snow that characterize every Wyoming mountain community. The park's 1936 founding gives it a historical depth unusual among operating campgrounds, and the family's decades of experience managing a gateway-community campground has produced the kind of operational reliability and local knowledge that independent travelers on long western road trips particularly value. The park's combination of solid infrastructure, family ownership character, and strategic I-80 gateway positioning makes it a consistent and trustworthy choice for Evanston overnight stays.
from $26/night
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Sun Outdoors Canyonlands Gateway
77 RV Sites, 18 Cabins, 15 Tent Sites, 3 Cottages
At 13701 US Highway 191 in Moab, Utah—in Grand County where the Colorado River cuts through Canyonlands' uplift in the canyon system that has produced the most visually dramatic landscape in the American West, where Arches National Park's 2,000 documented natural sandstone arches rise from the red rock plateau above town, and where the mountain biking, whitewater rafting, four-wheel-drive, and hiking culture of the Colorado Plateau's outdoor recreation economy has made Moab the most visited small city in Utah—Sun Outdoors Canyonlands Gateway provides full hookup RV sites with sites up to 110 feet, an on-site gas station, a general store, a swimming pool with a splash pad, and the comprehensive site infrastructure that Moab's year-round visitor market and its frequent afternoon heat make essential for comfortable multi-day stays at the gateway to two national parks. The on-site gas station alone changes the morning logistics for guests departing for Arches or Canyonlands with a large rig. Deluxe and extra-large RV sites with full hookup service—30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer—on leveled gravel pads accommodate rigs from 40 to 110 feet, covering the full spectrum of current motorhome and fifth-wheel lengths. Picnic tables, charcoal grills, cable television, and WiFi are included at each site. Primitive tent sites with picnic tables, charcoal grills, cable, and WiFi, plus water spigots and access to the shared bathhouses, provide the lower-cost camping option. Camping cabins with two full-size beds, heating and air conditioning, linens, and cable and WiFi give guests without RVs the enclosed accommodation option. A swimming pool with an adjacent splash pad provides the afternoon heat relief that Moab's summer temperatures—regularly exceeding 100 degrees from June through August—make genuinely necessary for guests planning to spend mornings in the parks and afternoons at the campground. An on-site gas station, general store, laundry facilities, propane service, multiple picnic areas with fire pits, and covered pavilions with BBQ grills complete the resort's full-service infrastructure. Arches National Park, accessible from the resort within minutes on US 191 north, provides the sandstone arch concentration that has made Moab internationally recognizable—Delicate Arch's 65-foot span above the Colorado River canyon appearing in virtually every piece of Utah promotional material since Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire popularized the Arches landscape in 1968. The park's 2,000-plus documented natural arches, fins, and balanced rocks are accessible on the park road with developed trailheads ranging from the 100-yard Windows Section walk to the strenuous Devil's Garden Primitive Loop. Canyonlands National Park, the larger and less-visited counterpart to Arches, divides its terrain into three distinct districts separated by the Colorado and Green Rivers' confluence—the Island in the Sky mesa above the river junction providing the most accessible and panoramic viewpoints in the Colorado Plateau system. Dead Horse Point State Park, perched above the Colorado River's 2,000-foot Goose Neck canyon in a position that most Moab visitors cite as more visually stunning than anything in either national park, is accessible on the same road as the Island in the Sky and should be included in any Canyonlands day trip. Sun Outdoors Canyonlands Gateway operates year-round in Moab's four-season desert climate. Spring and fall offer the most comfortable temperatures for hiking and cycling; summer brings the heat but also the full river rafting season on the Colorado's Cataract Canyon. Reserve your extra-large site early for spring break and the fall October shoulder season, fill up at the on-site gas station on the morning of your national park drive, and let Grand County's canyon geology earn what two national parks within 30 minutes of each other look like when the red rock is catching the first light.
from $21/night
